Bhadrapur, Feb. 26:The Nepal Trade Union Congress (ntuc) third national council meeting which concluded here recently has requested  that His Majesty’s Government take necessary steps to pass the bill on social security of the workers in the coming winter session of the parliament.

The meeting has pointed out the need to form a high level national labour commission so as to work out labour policies and programmes for the next ten years by evaluating the present labour status in the country.

The proposal passed by the meeting calls for approval of articles 29, 87, 105 and 182 of the international conventions passed by the International Labour Organisation, and for greater attention of the concerned bodies to the review of the policies as the deviation in the economic policies since the past ten years following the advent of democracy has seen the poor getting poorer.

As the incidents of murder and violence in the country does no good to anybody the proposal says, the murder perpetrated  in the name of Maoists should immediately be  halted.  It has  also demanded that problems be resolved   for  the full implementation of the international conventions on labour   ratified by hmg.

At the concluding function of the council meeting, president of the Nepal Trade Union Congress Laxman Bahadur Basnet said the ntuc is always effortful in the preservation and promotion of the welfare of the workers. About 400 representatives and observers from 60 districts of the kingdom   had participated at the meeting.